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Outpatient Surgery Magazine connects the ambulatory surgery community – and offers OR leaders a place to exchange ideas, learn about emerging trends and discover in-the-field solutions to daily
challenges – providing the knowledge and tools to deliver high-quality care in the outpatient environment and keep healthcare workers and surgical patients safe.
April 2025
Gaining Ground
The impressive growth of shoulder replacements has total hips and knees looking in the rearview.
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Two patient safety groups have issued an alert about the potential for injecting fragments of flexible stoppers on medication vials into patients....
A hospital nurse from South Carolina and a team of ICU nurses from Boston were honored as “Extraordinary Nurses in Patient Safety” at a national conference last week...
Must Reads
Missing instruments. Wrong instruments. Contaminated instruments. Each creates a losing proposition for surgery, from costly delays to frustrated OR staff and surgeons to...
One weekend each month, all the rooms at Knoxville (Tenn.) Orthopaedic Center are treated with liquid and vaporized isopropyl alcohol, a protocol that serves as an...
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Ambulatory Surgery Center Quality Reporting Program (ASCQR) is complex, even for experienced professionals in ASC...
When I took the job as clinical director of an ASC, I imagined myself as a visionary leader who ensured patients and staff would thrive in a perfectly coordinated dance of...
Ann M. Cook, BHA, RN, CASC, is director of nursing at The Center for Surgical Care in Florence, Ky., which opened way back in 1988. Even though her center is 37 years old...
Achieving optimal and timely recoveries for total joints patients isn’t easy....
Are you feeling overwhelmed, overworked and facing a never-ending to-do list? When was the last time you participated in discussions that include best practice solutions...
Welcome to A Day in the Life of an Administrator, our online column, where we sat down with Nikki Williams, RN, CNOR, executive director of Watson Clinic Surgery Center in ...
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